The Aesthetic Turn in Management

Introduction

This volume acknowledges the progress made in recent decades by organization and management theorists who have conceptualized the environment and experience of management through an aesthetic lens. In so doing, they have participated in an undertaking that has often flouted convention, and this volume celebrates their work, its title having been deliberately chosen to evoke a shift in direction, an excursion, even a jaunt.

More specifically, the aesthetic turn in management now provides a range of ways of considering management and organization. Some scholars might conceive aesthetic management as an additional device in a rationalist toolbag (see, for example, Witz, Wadhurst and Nickson, Chapter 5, this volume). In contrast, scholars ...